“I saw he had a significant bleeding injury to the right side of his forehead,” Officer David Ellithorpe wrote in his report. “(The Seattle Fire Department) arrived and attended to his injury.”

A man, who police said was obviously intoxicated, told officers he and the victim were walking near Othello Playfield when the three men approached them from behind and asked if they were Crip gang members.

The man who talked to police said he’d seen the suspects before, but didn’t know their names.

They followed them to the Exxon gas station and began hitting and kicking the victim. After the assault, he said, they fled into a house in the 7300 block of 43rd Avenue South.

“I was advised by the less than cooperative adult female resident that no one was in the house but she and a small child,” Ellithorpe wrote.